I used to be a Labour MP. But as I shift to the Right, the Tories shift Left, says Simon Danczuk

Needless to say, and not unusual for many people, I’ve gradually shifted my politics to the right as I’ve got older. Seeing the injustice for hardworking people from uncontrolled immigration and benefit cheats, the poor policing practices, the shift to an unfathomable woke agenda, I’ve come to realise that Thatcher was right, and I was wrong.

It's ironic, that as I’ve been moving to the right the Conservative Party have been gradually shifting to the left.

The Conservative Party have abandoned everything Thatcher stood for: individual responsibility, freedom, entrepreneurialism, law and order, a strong nation state.

Today’s Conservative Party coalesce with Starmer’s Labour to occupy the centre ground.

Over the last 14 years the Conservatives have overseen millions of taxpayer’s pounds spent on the introduction of diversity officers.

The Conservatives have enabled every police force to shift from being enforcement agencies to becoming social workers.

The Tories have passively observed the judiciary make increasingly unpopular and irrational decisions, from avoiding punishing those destroying monuments, through to failing to jail Hamas supporting hate marchers, and everything in between.

Not only have the Tories overseen a massive rise in working age people living off benefits, but they have facilitated uncontrolled and illegal immigration. They believe if people don’t want to work then they don’t have to, we can import the workers instead.

When our country has been crying out for strong centre right leadership, we’ve been let down time and again. First it was the moderate David Cameron, ably assisted by the Lib Dem’s Nick Clegg. We’ve had the well-meaning Theresa May and now we’ve got hapless Rishi Sunak ably supported by Cameron.

For a short time, we had Liz Truss but with a combination of misjudgement and mischief from others she was gone.

The nearest the country came to having the leadership it wanted and needed was Boris Johnson. Never someone on the right of his party he did, and still does, understand solutions the country needs are Thatcherite, not Blairite.

But Boris was done for by his own MPs. At first, many celebrated his ability to win big in 2019, but then many failed to defend him against ridiculous trumped-up charges in 2022.

Here’s the rub, many Conservative MPs are really Liberal Democrats, or have been captured by what I call Weak Westminster.

Weak Westminster is where MPs allow civil servants to decide what’s best for the country and how it should be run. It fails to get civil servants back to work after the pandemic.

Weak Westminster, after the Brexit vote, allows EU regulations to remain in place and lets European courts dictate how we run our country.

Weak Westminster actively avoids votes in parliament for fear of upsetting Islamic extremists.

Weak Westminster sees MPs across all parties struggling to define a woman. It insists upon us celebrating and promoting every religious event at the expense of Christianity and it does nothing to defend the use of the union flag.

Far too many Conservative MPs buy into and enable this left-wing, woke world view of how Westminster should conduct itself. Weak Westminster is the last thing most people want, most would have Margaret Thatcher back in a second.

Ironically, in a desperate attempt to get change, and because the Tories have shifted yet further to the left, the public are going to choose Keir Starmer as their PM.

It’s only after three, four, or five years of living under Starmer that the right in British politics will finally sort itself out and offer the public a decent alternative. Then we can get back to having a strong Westminster.